Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Tonight, Ricky Nolasco makes his Dodgers debut. According to David Vassegh of the MLB Network, Nolasco will have 20-25 family members in the crowd for his Dodger debut. Nolasco is thrilled to be pitching for his hometown team; he loved watching Ramon Martinez and Chan Ho Park pitch growing up, and according to Vassegh, Nolasco was named "Enrique" because of his father's love of Rick Monday. (Clearly, Nolasco's father keeps track of the score on his own when listening to Rick Monday radio broadcast games.) Nolasco pitched against the Diamondbacks this season for Miami on May 19, and held them to one run and five hits over 8.0 IP, earning the win as well as notching 11 Ks (his season high). Nolasco is 6-2 with a 4.41 ERA lifetime against the Snakes. In fact, one could definitely call Nolasco "spicy"; he's off to his second-best season in his eight-year career, from an ERA and ERA+ perspective.

Okay: been casting votes for Puig. Going to the Tigers game tomorrow. Crap seats but they're free. May not make it thru Dodgers game, so this is my wish list: 1. Beat these dirtbags2. Go vote more for Puig3. Nolasco hits a HR4. Kennedy blows out his elbow.

Dodger players are going to need to pull Puig aside and let him know that some of those things he's doing is putting them (and him) at risk of getting plunked or spiked or otherwise retaliated against.

Good question...I think they're sort of in unknown territory. Early claim that it was unrelated to previous shoulder injury. But they were also originally saying he'd only be out a day or two, then no DL maybe probably, then DL, then....